A photograph of murder victim Chris Harper, 16-year-old heartthrob student from Colm's, the neighbouring and equally exclusive boys' school, is accompanied by the words "I know who killed him" – cut, in the manner of a ransom note, from a book. She has brought a message she's spotted pinned up on the eponymous "secret place", a noticeboard where the girls may relieve their feelings by anonymously posting their innermost secrets. Holly is the teenage daughter of a colleague (Frank Mackey, also in Faithful Place) and a boarder at St Kilda's school ("Girls' secondary, private, leafy suburb. Ambitious, working in the Cold Case unit and hoping to graduate to the Murder Squad, Moran gets a surprise visit from Holly Mackey. A ll the books in French's excellent Dublin Murder Squad series have different protagonists, and in this, the fifth title, it's the turn of Detective Stephen Moran, previously introduced in Faithful Place, to step into the spotlight.
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